Introducing TrainingToday's

Cyber Security Library

Cybercrime is a growing threat to many organizations. Are you sure your company is prepared?

Ginni Rometty, IBM’s president and CEO, said, “Cybercrime is the greatest threat to every company in the world.”

Even billionaire business man Warren Buffet said in a recent interview, “I don’t know that much about cyber, but I do think that's the number one problem with mankind.” A recent study indicates that they may not be too far off.

The study predicts that cybercrime damage will cost $6 trillion annually by 2020, up $3 trillion from 1 year ago. Cities around the U.S. are already experiencing cybercrime. Most recently, hackers attacked Mecklenburg County government servers in Charlotte, North Carolina. The cyber criminals demanded $23,000 in ransom.

Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio said that the county won’t pay.

“I am confident that our backup data is secure and we have the resources to fix this situation ourselves,” Diorio said in a news release. “It will take time, but with patience and hard work, all of our systems will be back up and running as soon as possible.”

And Charlotte isn't alone. According to an article in Cities Today, the federal Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center saw an 85 percent increase in ransomware total attacks on cities from 2015 to 2016 and a 295 percent increase from 2014 to 2016. The article explained how municipal governments are often considered soft targets because many of them have out-of-date information security and restricted budgets.

Sometimes the first defense against cybercrime is making sure your employees and supervisors know what cybercrime is and what they can do to help prevent it. That's why TrainingToday® has developed the Cyber Security library.